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Podcast: Saturday Morning with Jack Tame
Episode: Jack Tame: The solitude of tramping in the bush
Description: As I turned on my phone for the first time in three days, it lit up with text messages from my wife. A photo. A tiny baby. Trussed up in a cotton wrap like a fresh, fleshy burrito with a little woolen hat for good measure. “Congratulations,” she said. “You’re a dad.” I knew she was joking. I’m not denying there was an element of risk in going tramping through the backcountry of the Kahurangi National Park with a wife who was 32-weeks pregnant. I just knew that if she had had the...